Dynofy – Cloud Monitoring System

By Shubhamoy Chakrabarty on March 24, 2014 11 Comments / 4327 views

Hello Rodinhooders,

First of all, it still feels as a dream that I got such a huge platform to launch my product. Those present at the OpenHouse; I was the lucky one to receive the compliment of the best dressed guy 😛

Let the rambling begin:

At the very beginning of my engineering, I had made up my mind that I’ll start something of my own. In the year 2011, I actually started a small venture named Kalakhatta.com with my childhood friends. It gave me a first hand experience and taught me many lessons which still inspire me. At the peak of the success, I actually got it registered as a private limited company (Kalakhatta Networks Private Limited) but eventually things didn’t worked out. So the biggest lesson I learnt being that the service industry has tantrums of its own and I should move my focus to developing products. Thus started a new chapter which eventually led to the development of dynofy.

The overall experience at the Open House was really overwhelming and the ideas suggested by the crowd were really amazing and has again boosted to work in a more disciplined way. I’m really pleased to be a part of this amazing group or I should say a revolution. Special thanks to Alok Sir for the use of missed call for intimating the user of a downtime. At 23, its very easy to think about a startup but at the same time getting mentored by a community of matured entrepreneurs is really a win-win situation.

Now coming to the product dynofy; I received mixed reviews and the most prominent being that when Pingdom is there why to use dynofy. The answer to question lies in the fact that its an Indian initiative to build something and secondly to hone up the skills to develop new products in the future.

The basic idea of dynofy was generated by combining majority of the free and premium features of the existing website monitoring services. For more details check out the presentation:

I would be glad to get some suggestions, feedback and queries from the community which would enable to make it a huge success. Even criticism is welcomed wholeheartedly!

Regards,

Shubhamoy

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Shubhamoy Chakrabarty

11 Comments

Mahesh Khambadkone April 4, 2014, 4:52 am

I wasn’t at the OpenHouse but I heard about one of the suggestions that was made to you : allow users to receive a CALL if there is downtime.

That’s a big shortcoming of pingdom. Do visit OpsGenie, that has a simple interface to allow me to receive calls triggered by alerts from Pingdom.

The set-up on OpenGenie is a bit complicated (a UI problem), but if you can add Calls for notifications (using the Twilio API for calls, perhaps) and have a dumbed-down solution as pingdom, you may find takers.

I think, being in India, if you can supplement the notifications with first-level triage of the problems, and offer it as a Troubleshooting As A Service, you may find customers. I’ve seen so many outages and, after digging through code and set-ups, the problems are often common ; some setting in Linux wrong, a index missing, a misconfiguration of a webserver setting.
Abey John April 4, 2014, 5:11 am

The 800 pound gorilla in the server monitoring space is pingdom. What are you doing that is better/different/more attractive than them?

Suggestions:

1. Create a free wordpress plugin with upgrade options.

2. Incorporate RUM (real user monitoring) if possible. RUM is more critical.

Where are your monitoring servers located? Latency is a huge issue especially in India.
asha chaudhry April 4, 2014, 5:56 am

shubhamoy,

you are one of the luckiest guys to have both mk (mahesh) and abey comment on your thread. they are tech gods on trhs!!!
Shubhamoy Chakrabarty April 4, 2014, 7:06 pm

First of all thanks a lot sir for your comment. We’re in the process of adding some of the features including the calling one. Regarding the Troubleshoot as a Service; we might start in the near future.
Shubhamoy Chakrabarty April 4, 2014, 7:29 pm

First of a thanks a lot sir for your comment. The basic idea of starting dynofy was to simply combine the premium features of 12 major monitoring services. Moreover learning new technologies ain’t a big deal but developing a product actually poses loads of challenges.

We’ve also released the REST API and will start working on the WordPress Plugin soon. BTW our servers are in New York. Once again thanks a lot 🙂
Shubhamoy Chakrabarty April 4, 2014, 7:30 pm

Yeah I’m really delighted to be a part of TheRodinhoods!
Abey John April 7, 2014, 10:23 am

Sounds good. Am more interested in latency issues and front end load times with visitors. Server downtime is pretty much a non-event on shared/vps/cloud hosting (90%+ market) but pageload is a crucial factor that has direct impact on revenue.
asha chaudhry August 12, 2014, 12:15 pm

hey shubhamoy,

what’s happening in dynofyland??!!

we’d all love to hear an update on your journey….!
Shubhamoy Chakrabarty August 12, 2014, 12:28 pm

Hi Asha,

Nothing much! Still struggling with the payment gateway stuff. Yeah sure would share some update.
asha chaudhry August 12, 2014, 12:32 pm

have you checked out all of our payment gateway posts??
Shubhamoy Chakrabarty August 12, 2014, 12:48 pm

Subscription based billing isn’t possible in India due to the OTP required for every transaction.